About Me

Some facts about us:
Together since May 2004,
Matt & Kristin
Married in May 2009. Between the two of us, we've lived in California, Hawaii, Guam, Japan and met here, in good ol' Virginia.
We adopted two mini schnauzers, Hemingway & Mya aka The Pups.
We bought our first home in May of 2011 and are ridiculously excited for all the DIY projects ahead of us.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Putting Down Roots

Lets start with an olllld pic of the house. Before the new house color, barnyard red door and painted porch. Even before the mailbox area was fixed up.

Do you see what I see?
Well besides a beautiful day in the VA, and the depressing house color...
It's a front yard completely bare of any trees. On one hand, yay to not having to rake a pile of leaves. But on the other hand, it seems so... well bare.

We didn't do anything drastic, but it's definitely a step towards a more welcoming exterior!

*Thanks to our awesome neighbors who donated a Japanese Maple they were getting rid of, which sparked this project!

The hubs was out there for hours prepping for the tree...

Seriously, that was a lot of digging.
He finished up with new soil, fertilizer and mulch. Oh, and lots and lots and lots of watering.

And now we have a little summin' summin' in the yard and still not a ridiculous amount of leaves to rake up!

It's starting to change colors with the season now.

And because Mattchew got me a new camera for my birfusday, here's a random close up.

We love the new addition! The hubs was so afraid it wasn't going to make it through the replanting process. But it's been in for a good 3 weeks now and it looks great! We need to do some trimming, but I guess that can wait a bit longer. Although, I have been tempted to go out there and do it now, I can't. Matt just may drop kick me. I have no patience, but I'm trying!

@BethThank you! Definitely do some research and do it on your own. That's a crazy price!

Matt had to dig our hole pretty big/wide because it the root system on that tree was spread wide since it was uprooted from the ground. But if you buy a potted tree I'm sure it wouldn't have to be so immense. Good luck! :)